Threatening To Blow Up Hijacked Ship Is Not From Us - IPOB

Latest as PDP chieftain blasts Biafra agitators

 

News reaching us has it that the Customary Govern­ment of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) yesterday frowned at a news sto­ry linking its members to a threat to blew up a hijacked foreign ship, disassociating the members of IPOB from the act.

Meanwhile, a chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta State, Prince Alexander Igbinoba, has condemned the continued call for Biafra Repub­lic by members of IPOB and Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB).

 

IPOB in a statement signed by Engr Anthony Aniebue, Admin­istrator, Customary Government of Biafra, insisted that all pro-Biafran groups now being har­monized under IPOB customary government were non violent, and devoid of criminal acts but peaceful in their approach for ac­tualization of the sovereign state of Biafra.

IPOB statement read in part: “Our people have died enough in this our struggle to escape from ‘Egypt’, and we shall die no more.

“It is therefore the decision of the Customary Government of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to dissociate herself and the peace-loving Biafrans from the recent attempt by some vio­lent group to drag the Biafran people into violence by hijacking a maritime vessel off the coast of Republic of Benin.

 

“ The Customary Govern­ment of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) hereby call on all Biafrans, irrespective of one’s ethnic nationality, through their traditional leadership, to rally round this Customary Govern­ment in order to restore Biafra peacefully as quickly as possible.

“All the ethnic nationalities in Biafra: Igbo, Ijaw, Ibibio, Urhobo, Itsekheri etc are hereby advised to mobilize their communities and align themselves under the Customary Government in our current activities to organize a global Biafran community un­der one traditional government: The Customary Government of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB),’’ the press statement con­cluded.

Addressing journalists at his country home in Eku, Ethiope East, Chief Igbinoba said the call for Biafra Republic would never be achieved, stressing that it was unfortunate that the youths who are bent on Biafra Republic had no knowledge of the beginning of the struggle and how it had failed all along.